Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-05-21
HOW THEY MADE MONEY.


 HOW THEY MADE MONEY.
 Pack up your I;t.ngs ss soon as you please, my dear," said Mir. Chesney. We're going to move on Saturday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Chesney were matri- monial firm, there was no question about that; but Mrs. Cnesney had always been silent partner
 elf ever / get married" said Elma. bright-eyed girl of seventeen, '.I won't be put upon as mamma is!'' "Papa is a regular despot-that's what papa isr' decided Will, tall stripling of fifteen.)
 Where, my dear?' asked Mrs. Ches- ney, with little start.
 Unto the country" said the family autocrat I'm tired of this city busi- ness; it costs great deal more than it comes to. I'm told you can live at half the expense in the country"
 But gasped Mrs. Chesney, "what is to become of the children's educa- tionPn
 There's very good district school in the neighborhood, not more than mile distant, explained her husband, ''and the exercise will do them good"
 And what are we to do for societyPp
 "Pshaw!" said Chcsney, .I wouldn't give rap for people who can't be so- clety for themselves. There'll be the housework 10 do, you know-nobody keeps girl in the country-and plenty of jobs about the place for Will and Spencer. 1 shall keep horse. if I can get one cheap, for the station is half mile from the place, and I've bargained l for a couple of cows and some pigs"
 Will and Spencer looked askance at each other.
 ''It'lf do us good to walk a mile to school muttered the elder; ''but father must have horse to carry him half a mile to the station"
 That's fathers logic all over," ob- served Spencer"
 While MT. Chesney explalned to his | wife the various advantages which were to accrue from the promised move.
 its unfortunate, said he, ''that FL ma and Rosie aren't boys. Such a lot Wi Tvns,aci, fSl any family. Men. now, can alw. 1 earn their bread. But we r,ai,st trr make every body useful in some way or other. It's so healthy, you know" | added he. And the rent won't be half of what we pay here"
 Are there any modern conyeniences about the placer timidly inquired Mrs Chesney.
 There's a spring of excellent water about hundred yards from the house, !" said her husband.
 Have got to walk hundred yards for ever drop of water want?" said she.
 And large rain-water hogshead under the caves of the house., added Mir Chesney. s.And I've already got 8 bargain in kerosene lamps. As for candles, am given to understand that the good housekeepers whereabouts make 'em themselves in tin molds. There's nothing like economy Now I do beg to know, Abigail '' he added, irrjtably, what are you looking so lackadaisical about? Do you expect to sit still and fold your hands. while do all the I workP Give me a woman for sheer natural lazinessr'
 "l am not lazy, George,n said the poor wife, with bewildered air; 'sbut all this is so new and strange at first. But I'll try to get accustomed to it-I'H try my very best"
 Nevertheless, Rosie and Elma and their mother shed many salt tear into the trunks and packing-boxes, on top of 1 the woollen blankets and rugs and piles of domestic linen.
 Il hate the country!" said Elma. "Ia as soon go to prison and done with it."
 "Oh, Ellie, don't talk so,'' said Rose. sThere are wild roses and robins there, just as one sees on the painted plaques in the shop windows And perhaps we can have fower-bed, and some dear little downy chickens
 But the first sight of NIulleinstalk Farm was dispiriting in the extreme. Between rock and swamp there was scarcely pasture for the two lean COWS that Mir. Chesney had bought as "a bar gain" and the hollow-bacbed horse, which stalked about the premises like some phantom Bucepha1us.
 The apple trees in the orchard were three-quarters dead. and leaned sor- rowfully away from the last winds, until their boughs touched the very ground; the fences were all gone to ruin, and the front gate was tied up with a string.
 '.Is this home?" said Elma, with an indescribable intonation in her voice.
 "We'n get things all strengthened up, after awhile, said MT. Chesney, bust ling to drive away the pigs, who had broken out of theirpen and were squeal- ing dismally under the window.
 Mrs. Chesney cried herself to sleep that night, and wakened the next morn ing with every bone instinct with shoot ing pains.
 And no wonder" said Spencer. "There's foot of water in the cellar"
 I've must have it drained" said MT. Chesney, with an uneasy look; but there's plenty of things to do first"
 And now began reign of the strict est economy. MT. Chesney himself paid for everything with cheeks, and not an article came into the house or went out